Cern plans even larger hadron collider for physics search

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Source: BBC

Cern plans even larger hadron collider for physics search

By Pallab Ghosh
Science correspondent, BBC News

15 January 2019

Cern has published its ideas for a £20bn successor to the Large Hadron Collider, given the working name of Future Circular Collider (FCC).

The Geneva based particle physics research centre is proposing an accelerator that is almost four times longer and ten times more powerful.

The aim is to have the FCC hunting for new sub-atomic particles by 2050.

Critics say that the money could be better spent on other research areas such as combating climate change.

But Cern's Director-General, Prof Fabiola Gianotti described the proposal as "a remarkable accomplishment".

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46862486


The Future Circular Collider is four times the circumference and ten times the power of the current collider

[Beakybird]

1. Maybe they'll find out it was Atom who begat Eve.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Are they going to collide larger hadrons?

[byronius]

4. Just finished Don Lincoln's 'Large Hadron Collider'.

Maons, alphons, haplons, heptons, quinks and tweedles.

We're going there.

Fascinating science. There appear to be no fundamental particles. Everything's made of orbiting smaller things, all the way down. Infinite in all directions, as Freeman Dyson wrote.

Bits of shock for the consciousness of lifeforms willing to look.